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This week’s edition of the PFW leaves your humble correspondent…

MERLIN:&#160 (cough)

KORRIOTH:&#160 Humble???

LSIK&T:&#160 Aaaaah, bite me.

…a little torn.

As most of you know by now, Texas Tech’s Mike Leach was fined 10 large ones for comments he made about the officiating in last week’s 43-59 loss to the TU Shortdicks Longhorns.

And here is the dilemma.&#160 It’s no secret that TU gets more than its share of calls, simply because they’re TU.&#160 The Big XII can deny it all they want, but The World’s Biggest College Football Payroll™ (again, my opinion, so you Shortdick attorneys can go fuck yourselves) covers more than just players, if you ask me (once again, my opinion).

On the other hand, it was, what, two years ago?…that a peon named Taurean Henderson scored a phantom touchdown against OU (if you’ll recall, I blogged about it at the time).

OZY MCCOOL:&#160 Two years ago Wednesday, in fact.

KORRIOTH:&#160 You weren’t even around then, whelp!

OZY MCCOOL:&#160 I was still in the Academy, Captain, ’tis true.&#160 But it was the best football rant I’d ever read to that point.

LSIK&T:&#160 Give me six more months of that before your next promotion, McCool.

OZY MCCOOL (glumly):&#160 Yes, m’Liege.

As fate would have it, a fact that escaped me at the time was that, just as Leach bitched last week about one of the officials living in Austin…one of the officials for that OU game two years ago…wait for it…

MERLIN:&#160 Let me guess – lived in Lubbock?

LSIK&T:&#160 Give the wizard a prize.

K’HADIBAK’H:&#160 Can you say “hypocrite”?&#160 Sure you can.

Therefore, I’m not ‘zactly sure whether to have sympathy for the jackass or not.

Anyway, on to the football.&#160 My Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets…are done for the year.&#160 Therefore, we switch to the alternate team, the Royse City (Texas) Bulldogs – who, as luck would have it, are ranked #7 in Class 3A in the state of Texas.&#160 They play a group from the nearby town of Frisco, Wakeland High.&#160 We’ll keep our fingers crossed for a deep playoff run.

Saturday, Bowling Green State University travels to New York to take on the UBuffalo Bulls.&#160 And as Cthulu is my witness – the game’s a “pick ’em”, according to Vegas.

Therefore, for this game only, I’m going to waive the “line plus 14” rule, and take the result of this game straight up.&#160 Let’s see what Turner Gill’s young charges can do in this environment.

Also Saturday, the third-ranked Oklahoma Sooners visit the aforementioned Texas Tech Red Raiders in Lubbock.&#160 The line is OU by 8&#189, so I fully expect another eleven-on-eighteen beatdown, but we’ll see.

Top-ranked LSU is an 19-point favorite when it goes to Ole Miss Saturday, and since the Rebels no longer have Eli Manning throwing for them, I’m inclined to call this a safe bet.

Saturday evening, Texas Christian’s Horned Frogs have their last home game of the year against the Runnin’ Rebels of UNLV.&#160 Should be a win for the Good Guys&#153, which will make them bowl-eligible – just in time to accept a bid to play the Armed Forces Bowl in (where else?) Fort Worth at (all together now) Amon Carter Stadium.&#160 (And yes, I’ll go to it, and yes – it’ll count in the PFW.)

Sunday, Washington comes into Texas Stadium to get its collective head handed to them by the Cowboys.&#160 Will all due respect to LC John Wardle, the ‘Skins are badly beaten up, won’t have any of their top three receivers for the game, will also be missing one of their best defenders, with another one distracted for personal reasons, and coming off a disheartening loss to Phuckadelphia in DC.&#160 This is going to be a major squash.

Not that I mind, but still.&#160

Now.&#160 As Moving Day™ is Monday, and I look to be on laptop power only for a couple days after that, the recap may be combined with the preview for next week.&#160 I’ll try to let you guys know.

In the meantime, Bucky whipped Michigan last week.&#160 Why have we not heard from the Humble DevilDog???